Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-26
TIE RACES.
Fast Time Made Both by Runners and
TrntferS


Fast Time Made Both by Runners and
Trotters.
The attendance at the track Saturday
was not so large as that of the day before.
The first event was the postponed race,
| mile and sixteenth, for which Patti and
Dave Douglas had each a heat and dead
heat to their credit. The betting was very
lively, with 500 to SIS on the mare. but
an offer to accept $3.50 on Patti against 500
made Douglas sell higher in the pools.
Once again did Dave take up the running,
and he led by half a length at the half
! mile post, and thence q slashing race en-
| sued, the horses being neck and neck at
the draw-gate but Dave Douglas outlasted
the mare, and won in 1:50l
The talent made heavy losses on this
| race, as PATHS success was looked upon as
foregone conclusion.
SUMMARY.
| AGRICULTURAL PARK COURSE Sacramento. Sen.
tember y, ISS7-Iunning; free purse, $3.50
Tor all ages; one mile and one-siXteenth and
repeat.
G. ". Traherp's b, z. Dave Dougas...O I 0 /
g. II. Eldred's b. +. Moonlight 8 sta
J. Cabreras ich. G. Mauzanita ............0 6 dis
James Garland's ch. C. ElWoOd .........4 dis
ONtilS DfbS. y. ;. dis
Time, 5l113-1:5l1 ISL $-1:54-1:50%.
a MATCH RACE.
Next came a match race for $500, be-
tween Bryant w. (I30 pounds) and Frank
lin (105 pounds), one mile. The betting
was $50 to $50 on Bryant. whose rider
made a waiting race, and so allowed Frank
lin TO open big gap, and when he tried to
move up there was no response on the part
of Bryant W.. so Franklin won in I:47. an
other fall for the talent
Sable Wilkes then walked over for The
entries in the special three-year- old trotting
stakes, making the mile in 2:27t.
THE GREAT TRorrERs.
Then came the principal event of the
day, purse for 81 800, for which Arab
sold for $50, with SIS for Adair and $50 for
Lot Slocum. Arab got away first with his
neat. telling stride, with Sl0cum in close
attendance, and thus they passed the half
mile post in 1:09l. Then Slccum moved
up and when on even terms at the draw
gate the pace was too hot for him, carrying
him to a break, so Arab won by four
lengths IN 2:15.
After this heat there was a great revul-
sion in the bettiog-so much so as to be-
wilder all those who were not in the ring
Arab was taken first choice at $50 when
Aoair was run up to S160 as second choice,
with only $50 on Lot Slocum. 1t was i'm
possible TO find out the cause of the sudden
change the most plausible reason being
that Adair and Slocum would alternate in
heats to make Arab go at his best gait. and
that if the latter showed signs of weakness
the issue would be ultimately lett to Adair
. as the freshest horse. Whatever were the
reasons adduced it caused a great many
hackers of Arab TO hedge out at heavy odds
and make great deal of talk On the quar-
ter-stretch. In the second heat Arab with
Hickok and Lot Siocum with Lee Shaner
stabborniy contested for honors throughout
the entire mile, while Goldsmith with
Adair was playing q dangerous game, ash
seemingly made no effort to get to the front.
Arab and Slocum trotted head aud head
for almost the entire distance, and finally
Slocum won, after r Furnishing finish, by
scant neck in Pill, the half-mile being
made in LODI.
Evidently there was q moneyed organiza-
ton whose members were bound to make
Adair win the race If coin could do the
trlck, tor>he brought $40 against $40 for
Slocum, and only SIS for Arab, and even
at such long odds against two such ex-
eelient public performances but few were
willing 10 bet against Adair and his boom.
The third heat gave no development On
the AdaiF deal, as when he made an effor..